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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-3-7
pubmed:abstractText
The enzymatic hydrolysis of polysaccharides by the 1, 3(4)-beta-glucanase (LamR) from Rhodothermus marinus has been explored. The enzyme cleaves the 1,3-beta-linkages of 3-O-substituted glucose units in 1,3-beta-glucans such as laminarin and curdlan, and also the 1,4-beta-linkages of 3-O-substituted beta-glucose in beta-glucans such as lichenin and 1,3-1, 4-beta-glucan from the cell walls of barley endosperm. The polysaccharide substrates (laminarin, curdlan and barley beta-glucan) were characterised using NMR spectroscopy. The reaction of LamR with its substrates was followed by recording one-dimensional and two-dimensional 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectra at suitable time intervals after addition of the enzyme. It is shown that hydrolysis occurs with retention of the anomeric configuration and that LamR performs transglycosylation to generate both 1, 3-beta-glycosidic and 1,4-beta glycosidic linkages. The transglycosylation results in, e.g. formation of the trisaccharide 4-O-glucosyl-laminaribiose from exclusively 1,3-beta-oligoglucosides. When barley 1,3-1,4-beta-glucan was incubated with LamR the beta-1, 4-linkages of 3-O-substituted beta-glycosyl residues were rapidly hydrolysed. Simultaneously de novo formation of 1,3-beta-glycosidic linkages was observed which, however, were cleaved during prolonged incubations. It is shown that a laminaribiosyl unit is the minimum requirement for formation of an enzyme-substrate complex and subsequent hydrolysis/transglycosylation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0014-2956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
267
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
361-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-7-23
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
A transglycosylating 1,3(4)-beta-glucanase from rhodothermus marinus NMR analysis of enzyme reactions.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, Carlsberg Laboratory, Valby, Denmark.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article